Senior Editor Adrienne Selko manages IndustryWeek’sExpansion Management, delivering ideas and information about how successful manufacturers leverage location to gain competitive advantage. She explores the strategies behind why companies located their headquarters, research institutes, factories, warehouse and distribution centers and other facilities where they did, and how they benefit from the decision.

Adrienne is also the editorial coordinator of the IndustryWeek Expansion Management Roundtable events, which unites economic development professionals to network and discuss the latest trends in site location.

As well, Adrienne tells the stories of successful companies in the biotechnology and life sciences industries.

In the past, Adrienne has managed IndustryWeek’s award-winning website, overseeing eNewletters, webinars, and contributed content. Before joining the staff, Adrienne was managing editor of corporate publications at a large regional financial institution. She also ran a public relations and marketing company that published a best-selling healthcare book.

Adrienne received a bachelor’s of business administration from the University of Michigan and is especially interested in wellness and natural health.

The project will include an expansion of Gestamp’s existing Chattanooga facility and the construction of a new stamping facility in Enterprise South to accommodate stamping of Class A parts including external metals skin for the new mid-size SUV.

Jamaica, which sits astride the trade routes in the Windward Passage and has access to the 800 million-person market of North, Central and South America, is in an ideal position to be a fourth node in the international logistics chain.

On July 7-8 the company, at its Bentonville, Ark. headquarters, will meet with potential suppliers as well as facilitate meetings between suppliers and key state economic development officials with knowledge of available U.S. manufacturing locations.

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